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Reforming Migration Policy

On 1992, Russia need a new migration policy, because they did not know how to deal with refugees, international labor migration, freedom of movement, or permanent migration to or from aboard.

After the independence, Russia joined the international community. On February 1992 as they agreed with freedom of movement, people were able to move in and out through Russia. However, this policy were not encouraged by Russia. They did not wanted mass of people to leave or come into their country in order to protect the pureness of Russia.

Russian Federation: Inflow of foreign population by country of nationality, 2002 to 2005

| Region/Sub-region/Country of Nationality _ -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-|| 2002 || 2003 || 2004 || 2005 ||

Foreign citizens (including "Stateless") (total)	18,287	20,377	12,834	14,584
Foreign citizens (excluding "Stateless")
Foreign citizens (excluding "Stateless") (total)	15,311	17,257	10,301	11,634
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Baltic States
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Baltic States (total)	13,941	16,511	9,250	10,361
Armenia	987	1,082	487	788
Azerbaijan	483	440	167	387
Belarus	363	431	227	246
Estonia	11	6	16	32
Georgia	520	398	181	175
Kazakhstan	3,953	4,561	2,272	1,924
Kyrgyzstan	685	887	548	469
Latvia	29	28	17	37
Lithuania	136	106	43	57
Moldova	455	415	279	413
Tajikistan	431	259	170	291
Turkmenistan	295	315	214	340
Ukraine	2,879	3,462	2,287	2,580
Uzbekistan	2,714	4,121	2,342	2,622
Other countries of the world
Other countries of the world (total)	1,370	746	1,051	1,273
Afghanistan	29	26	19	11
Albania	--	9	3	5
Bulgaria	39	29	528	11
Cameroon	15	--	--	--
China	348	226	58	402
Colombia	--	10	7	4
Finland	--	--	12	10
France	--	11	8	7
Germany	13	27	45	48
Greece	5	--	--	--
Guinea-Bissau	--	6	2	4
India	166	--	--	--
Iraq	--	--	6	37
Israel	36	45	40	31
Jordan	16	5	7	17
Kenya	--	12	19	36
Korea, North	18	--	--	--
Korea, South	21	--	--	--
Lebanon	--	4	6	4
Mongolia	15	10	3	15
Morocco	10	10	10	23
Nigeria	15	16	18	23
Pakistan	24	9	1	8
Palestine	--	9	3	10
Peru	--	7	3	13
Poland	7	4	3	3
Serbia and Montenegro	--	--	2	6
Solomon Islands	--	47	52	15
Sudan	--	5	2	2
Syria	34	17	18	40
Turkey	31	13	10	18
Uganda	--	--	--	7
United States	17	17	28	32
Vietnam	117	52	12	99
Yugoslavia	13	10	--	--
Zambia	--	11	6	29
Other countries (unspecified)	381	99	120	303
Stateless
Stateless (total)	2,976	3,120	2,533	2,950

http://www.migrationinformation.org/DataHub/countrydata/data.cfm

Returning to Russia

Many people in Russia temped to move to another country because of Russia's ethnic violence, and drops in economic output.

However people after experiencing other countries, people that have moved had realized that standard of living would be best in their own homeland that they have better chance in Russia to get jobs, house and other resources.

http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=62
http://www.migrationinformation.org/DataHub/countrydata/data.cfm